We, like thousands or other sites on the Internet will be blacked out and not posting news stories on 18 January 2012, in protest of the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and (PIPA PROTECT IP Act) are frightening pieces of legislation that threaten free speech on the Internet. The US [...]
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PARIS, October 25, 2011/PRNewswire/ – The internet exchange point France IX enlarges its footprint to the strategic location of Marseille. This is the 9th point of presence (PoP) in France and the first out of Paris. [...] BT, who is responsible for all Internet backbone service in the UK (in addition to having its own ISP service) reported that downloads for Apple’s iOS5 set a record for traffic on all UK networks the past two days. Exceeding 80Giga bits per second, iOS5 downloads had greater demand on the Internet than [...] ISP’s have traditionally bemoaned that bandwidth costs have a major impact on their businesses because users consume more and more, allegedly necessitating higher prices to consumers. Plum Consulting has opened the kimono and revealed that bandwidth is actually a tiny fraction of any ISP’s true costs, [...] October 19th is the launch date for the new ViaSat1 satellite, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which will finally bring high speed downloads to satellite Internet customers in the U.S.(with Hawaii) and Canada. [...] McAfee’s Site Advisor and Script Scan plug-ins have crashed Firefox 6.0.2 (and Firefox 7) over 10,000times in the past few weeks. [...] Net Neutrality (uncensored Internet for all) will be making its big debut in the United States of America this November if [...] First I’d like to thank everyone for their support the past year at my (then) new site. As you can see I have moved away from the old service provider and now have a new permanent URL so you can always find me at: http://drbobtechblog.com regardless of service provider [...] After having a disastrous relationship with Google (Blogger – BlogSpot) and losing thousands of my posts, I decided to move. After all, Google was completely unresponsive to my requests for help, it has a poor support system (they only offer a (mostly unattended by employees) forum where my posts were ignored, then my [...] |
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